Example sentences of "back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 2 | When they had finished they patted the dovecot affectionately and climbed back unhurriedly down the stairs . |
| 3 | The best route , initially , is to cross the shallows on the left into the rack then go right over the shingle/boulder bank into the mini haystacks , thence into the pool , left at the next rack and cut back right between the rock and the boulder bank to avoid the tree roots . |
| 4 | Leonora leaned back thankfully against the piled pillows , listening to the wind , which howled around the house like a hundred banshees demanding entry . |
| 5 | But in spite of his words there was a fusliza , ’ Tilda said as we walked back slowly along the path of Robina 's scruffy garden bordered by dark , unclipped shrubs . |
| 6 | He felt for a pulse then , letting the gunman 's arm drop , he holstered the Browning before walking back slowly towards the doors . |
| 7 | She came back slowly towards the house . |
| 8 | Hold this position for a few seconds then let your shoulders and head go back slowly to the floor . |
| 9 | watched her walk back slowly to the quay , |
| 10 | Mrs Maginnis said : ‘ We do n't have patients running hospitals and we do n't have neighbours living in the vicinity going in and testing that intestines have been put back properly by the surgeon carrying out the operation . |
| 11 | The ignorant response to this is to give up in despair , and to slump back agnostically into the comfortable armchair . |
| 12 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 13 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 14 | The boy 's head came up sharply , the green eyes flashed their invariable challenge , and flew back jealously to the shape of the opening flower that was heaving itself painfully out of the wood . |
| 15 | But Dawn Run was back alongside by the next fence only to suffer another reverse when clouting the fifth from home . |
| 16 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 17 | By May 3 up to 500 Moroccans were being turned back daily from the southern Spanish port of Algeciras as they attempted to enter before May 15 , when a visa became necessary for visitors who were citizens of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Mauritania . |
| 18 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 19 | Although historic links between the two countries go back long before the days when the French were sending troops to help the Jacobite rebellions , the French presence in Scotland remains relatively small . |
| 20 | ‘ At the end of BST they will get an hour back so at the end of the day it will all even out , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Lydia drove Betty to the Village Hall in the evening and drove back alone into the sudden shadow of the hill behind the cottage . |
| 22 | The typical emigrant , huddled together with his like in the strange new environment which received him coldly enough — the militant xenophobia of the ‘ Know-Nothings ’ was a native American response to the influx of starving Irish in the 1850s — fell back naturally on the only human setting that was familiar and could provide help , the company of his countrymen . |
| 23 | She took Charlotte companionably by the arm , and they turned back together towards the car park , and the Morris , and home . |
| 24 | They ran back together to the front . |
| 25 | The novel represents an attempt to bring these two domains back together through the common discursive mode of narrative . |
| 26 | Morag Taylor says she 's back together with the man she wanted dead . |
| 27 | A woman who plotted to kill her husband walked free from court and is back together with the man she wanted dead . |
| 28 | They can then be put back together into the whole when users wish to view or print a particular version of the document . |
| 29 | They tumbled back together into the lit space at the bottom of the stairs , gasping . |
| 30 | The bodies of two young boys have been stitched back together in the mortuary of this place . |